Modi to inaugurate World Sufi Forum in Delhi today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate World Sufi Forum in New Delhi today. The four-day event is being organized by All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), the apex body of Sufi Dargahs in India. More than 200 Indian and International delegates, including Sufi Shuyukh, spiritual leaders, scholars, academicians and masters of Sufism, are participating at the event. The meeting is expected to debate on how Sufi teaching can prevent global terrorism. The conclave will also debate on how to guide the Muslim community away from sectarian division. The organizers also said the debate on role of women in Islam will also conducted in the international conference. The Sufi Conference is expected to come out with a declaration against extremism and Wahabism in the last day of the event to be convened in the Ramlila Maidan.